Re: How to suppress "Terminated..." message after kill

2006-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: > (PID) Terminated tail -f file >outfile > Is there a way to suppress this message? (bash 2.05b) Use: set +m Or: set +o monitor -m Monitor mode. Job control is enabled. This option is on by default for i

How to suppress "Terminated..." message after kill

2006-09-20 Thread Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
My bash program basically does: tail -f file >outfile & killpid=$! ... kill $killpid >/dev/null 2>&1 ... Still I get the message (PID) Terminated tail -f file >outfile at the end of my script. Is there a way to suppress this message? (bash 2.05b) Ronald -- Ronald Fi